Lonnie Clarendon Stone


HEMINGWAY "Mr. Lonnie Clarendon (L.C.) Stone, Jr., 63, died Sunday at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence after a long battle with cancer.


Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 28 at Midway Baptist Church with burial following in Midway Cemetery directed by Morris Funeral Home. His family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral Home.


Mr. Stone was born in Hemingway, a son of Lonnie Clarendon Stone, Sr. and Olene Cribb Stone. He was a Hemingway High School Graduate, a life-long member of Midway Baptist Church, commissioned a Kentucky colonel in July, 1975; past-president and member of Willliamsburg Farm Bureau (25 years); member of Hemingway Lions Club; Farmer of the Year (1985) -Williamsburg County; and treasurer of Winyah Cruisers.


Survivors include his wife of the home, Marjorie Ann Wilder Stone, his children: Daniel Clarendon (Tammy) Stone of Columbia and Marjorie Lynn Stone (Matthew) Smith of North Myrtle Beach. Grandchildren: Tristan Jarrett Stone Smith and Payton Elizabeth Riley Smith, both of North Myrtle Beach. His sisters: Viola Stone Cribb of Spartanburg, Viva Nell Stone (Donald) Wilson of Lexington, and Norma Jean Stone Miller of Pamplico. He was predeceased by his daughter, Leslie Ann Stone and his sister Francis Stone Grier.


Memorials may be made to Midway Baptist Church, 756 Baptist Road, Hemingway, S.C. 29554 or Johnsonville Rescue Squad, P.O. 1021, Johnsonville, S.C. 29555.




Published in the Morning News on 12/27/2004.